Polygon Briefly Overtook Ethereum in Daily Fees After Polymarket’s Oscar Markets Drew $15M
Polygon collected about $407,100 in daily transaction fees, exceeding Ethereum’s roughly $211,700 on the same day, as Polymarket’s Oscar 2026 prediction markets concentrated heavy activity onto Polygon’s Layer 2 rails. The key signal is that a single high-throughput, cost-sensitive application can temporarily re-route fee capture away from the Ethereum mainnet and onto a preferred execution […]